How many baby Uinta ground squirrels are in a litter?
A Uinta ground squirrel (Spermophilus armatus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 158 grams (0.35 lbs) and measure 5.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Spermophilus). An adult Uinta ground squirrel grows up to a size of 21.9 cm (0′ 9″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Uinta ground squirrel (Urocitellus armatus), commonly called a Potgut in northern Utah, is a species of rodent native to the western United States.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Uinta ground squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Bolivian squirrel weighting only 190 grams
- Palmer’s chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Gunnison’s prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed prairie dog with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- California chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Unstriped ground squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Uinta ground squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Eurasian harvest mouse
- American water shrew
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart
- Mongolian hamster
- House mouse
- Olive grass mouse
- Long-tailed shrew
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse
- Dalton’s mouse
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
Animals that get as old as a Uinta ground squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 5 years
- Southeastern myotis with 6 years
- Western quoll with 5 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with 5.33 years
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with 5.75 years
- Canyon bat with 6 years
- Giant golden mole with 4 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with 6 years
- Forest giant squirrel with 5.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Uinta ground squirrel
What other animals weight around 307 grams (0.68 lbs)?
- Underwood’s pocket gopher weighting 250 grams
- Philippine forest rat weighting 253 grams
- Smoky flying squirrel weighting 251 grams
- White-tailed olalla rat weighting 274 grams
- Brown rat weighting 282 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Chinese zokor weighting 257 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox weighting 351 grams
- Bushy-tailed woodrat weighting 286 grams
- Guyanan spiny rat weighting 284 grams
Animals with the same size as a Uinta ground squirrel
Also reaching around 21.9 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Moluccan flying fox gets as big as 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mexican woodrat gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cape York rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ricefield rat gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Colombian weasel gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky pocket gopher gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Solomons flying fox gets as big as 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- Lowland ringtail possum gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)